邮

post (office); mail

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,174 U+90AE

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

阝 (semantic, “place”) + 由 (phonetic, yóu)

components: 由阝

post · Heisig RSH #2807

sprout + city walls

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 由

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 由 (yóu) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
由 sound component	yóu	cause, reason; from
油	yóu	oil, fat, grease, lard; oil paints
抽	chōu	to draw out, to pull out; to sprout
轴	zhóu	axle, pivot, shaft; axis
袖	xiù	sleeve
宙	zhòu	space, time, space-time
鼬	yòu	weasel, mustela itatis
铀	yóu	uranium
釉	yòu	enamel, glaze
岫	xiù	mountain peak; cave, cavern
柚	yòu	grapefruit, pomelo
蚰	yóu	millipede
妯	zhóu	sister-in law
舳	zhú	the stern of a ship

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
南京邮电大学	Nán jīng Yóu diàn Dà xué	Nanjing Post and Communications University
中国邮政	Zhōng guó Yóu zhèng	China Post (Chinese postal service)
高邮市	Gāo yóu Shì	Gaoyou, a county-level city in Yangzhou City 揚州市\|扬州市[Yang2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
万国邮联	Wàn guó yóu lián	Universal Postal Union (UPU)
电子邮件	diàn zǐ yóu jiàn	email; CL:封[feng1],份[fen4]
邮政区码	yóu zhèng qū mǎ	PRC postcode, e.g. 361000 for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門\|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian
万国邮政联盟	Wàn guó Yóu zhèng Lián méng	Universal Postal Union
电子邮箱	diàn zǐ yóu xiāng	email inbox
邮政式拼音	Yóu zhèng shì Pīn yīn	Chinese postal romanization, developed in the early 1900s, used until the 1980s
回邮信封	huí yóu xìn fēng	self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE)
航空邮件	háng kōng yóu jiàn	airmail
邮务士	yóu wù shì	mailman (Tw)
邮区	yóu qū	postal district
邮市	yóu shì	philatelic market
邮花	yóu huā	(dialect) (postage) stamp
邮电	yóu diàn	post and telecommunications
电邮	diàn yóu	email; abbr. for 電子郵件\|电子邮件[dian4 zi3 you2 jian4]
高邮	Gāo yóu	see 高郵市\|高邮市[Gao1 you2 Shi4]
平邮	píng yóu	ordinary mail (not express or registered)
邮车	yóu chē	mail van; mail coach